A.G. Blount. Courage for the Tough Questions: Leadership and Adaptive Learning. From Command to Community: A New Approach to Leadership Education in Colleges and Universities.
Edited by Nicholas V. Longo and Cynthia M. Gibson. Tufts University Press, May, 2011. [abs]

A.G. Blount. How Does a Campus Link the Curriculum and Co-Curriculum for Civic Engagement. Democracy and Civic Engagement. Fall, 2005. (a monograph published by the New York Times and the American Democracy Project, American Association of State Colleges and Universities)

Bio/Profile
Alma Blount became the director of the Hart Leadership Program in 2001. Since 1997 she has also directed Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL), an intensive, yearlong leadership development program for undergraduates. As a lecturer in Public Policy, she teaches courses about political participation and adaptive leadership. She has taught public policy at Duke since 1994.

Blount has been a consultant to non-profit and public sector groups across North Carolina on issues of organizational development and project design. In the 1990s she served as a strategic planning coach for Governor Hunt's Smart Start Program, which worked to improve early childhood education and access to resources for families and children.

In the 1980s she managed programs for international, faith-based, human-rights organizations in the United States and Central America. She led numerous delegations from the U.S. on educational trips to Nicaragua and El Salvador. Her strong interest in Latino politics and culture grew out of her work with migrant farm workers in eastern North Carolina in the 1970s. She was an original staff member of The Independent newspaper in Durham, N.C.

She has a Masters of Divinity Degree from Harvard University and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.